One of the reasons for the German preference for hop-on, hop-off high-speed trains is that stage lengths are shorter than in France, where the population is more spread out, with fewer big towns.

德国人喜欢随上随下高速列车的其中第一个原因是站与站的距离要比法国短，法国的人口更分散，大城市更少。

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The high divorce figures don't seem to be putting people off marriage.

高离婚率好像并没有使人们对婚姻望而却步。

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Her car swerved off the road into a 6 ft high brick wall.

她的车突然转向冲出道路，撞上一面6英尺高的砖墙。

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Today,if a girl acts like she is better than everyone else, you might say she should get off her high horse.

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The heater is on, it's producing heat until a negative signal is registered, 'oh we've gone too high', and then it turns off.

加热器会开着,一直产生热量直到它得到一个关闭的信号,噢我们弄得太热了,然后就关闭了

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So this squared at the origin is going to be a very high probability, and it decays off as you get farther and farther away from the nucleus or from the center, and that's independent of the angle.

所以这个平方,在原点处非常高，随着离核子的距离,越来越远,它逐渐衰减，并且它和角度是没有关系的。

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